The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-05-19
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THURSDAY, MAY 70, IS
HAWAIIAN HOME RULE.

The above heading is like the juno
ton Of two roads, commonly called the
"forks." 1t may be started from in
two directions, leading to two arenas
Of thought. Leading down one branch
the subject may mean the dominant
cry of the present times, "Hawaii for
the Hawaiians." Taking the other
road it may mean, Hawaii for her
helpers" What we want to say is that
the latter branch is the way to that
species of home rule which it should
be the effort Of every person living in
these Islands to achieve. 1t is a motto
that includes the other one. The
other one does not include it, but is
the rapacious howl of wolves in sleeps
clothing. Because those who benefit
by the howl do not even mean to make
Hawai- a land Of pleasantness and
plenty for their native countrymen.
On the contrary, they are the poor
natives most heartess oppressors. In
stead Of encouraging him to root him
self and his posterity to the soil in
peaceful and profitable industry,
they covet his little homestead, like
Ahab, the vile King Of Israel, did that
OF Naboth. May their just retribution
be as sure as that Of the abandoned
Hebrew monarchl These revivers Of
native feudalism, these cruel Shylocks,
it is notorious, exact twenty, fifty, even
one hundred per cent on mortgages of
the poor Hawaiian's estates, and after
squeezing all they can out Of their
victims in coin acquire their small
holdings by inevitable foreclosures.
Then, to maintain political lordship
over the Hawaiians who are being
cheated out Of their share in Hawaii,
these Hawaiians who mean Hawaii
only for themselves do not scruple to
use the most tyrannical and unconsti-
tutional measures. Thus, number Of
independent natives, we cannot say
how large, we're on recent occasion
of general resort from the islands into
the city, peremptorily summoned into
an august presence and sharply repri-
handed for exercising their rights as
subjects, according to the dictates Of
intelligence and conscience, at the last
elections, and dismissed with dire
threats OF punishment if they again
opposed national" candidates at the
polls. And what of those still more
disreputable measures adopted by these
"Hawaiians for the Hawaiians," in
deluging the body polite during the
elections with the liquid means Of
national destruction only too freely
used by the susceptible natives, of theiI
own volition and at their own expense,
in the intervals when they are not re-
CURED as voting material2
"Hawaii for her helpers" is motto
that holds out hope Of deliverance tc
the simple native population who are
ground down, on the ancient pagan
principle but by the modern scientific
methods of INSCRIPTIONS oligarchs, be
meath the heels of their countrymen
raised by adventurous means to hold
the whip Of oppression over their backs
Reformers will be culpable, if, in for
mulating claims for recognition Of the
rights of large taxpayers, they leave
out Of view the lowly condition of tn,
native population, in which they are
maintained by the exercise Of tina
autocratic power which is the bane o
the wealthy interests established by
foreign capital They will, besides, bt
pursuing shortsighted policy in fol
lowing such course, if, as there seems
no alternative, the voice Of the whole
people is to be the dependence o
liberal institutions in this Kingdom
The native electorate will have to b.
educated in their rights, and stand BE-
made by any organization for reform
between poor Hawaiians and the lordly
coercionists Of their own blood who